The Office for Civil Rights (“OCR”) of the US Department of Health and Human Services recently released a final rule (“Final Rule”) to update the HIPAA ...

An unmitigated revamp of healthcare cybersecurity is coming in 2025, and experts warn that the compliance burden for organizations will be steep. Since 2005, healthcare organizations have been subject ...

As the permanent HIPAA auditing program gets under way this year, the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services issued a proposed rule that would require a controlling health plan (CHP) to submit ...

Melanie Fontes Rainer, HHS OCR director, speaking at a HIPAA summit this week (Image: Marianne Kolbasuk McGee) As the final months of the Biden administration wrap up, regulators at the agency charged ...

Ever since the updated HIPAA rule took effect last March, some hospital IT departments see themselves as “the HIPAA police,” clamping down in ways that the rule doesn't require, says one industry ...

As the Department of Health and Human Services weighs potential modifications to the HIPAA Privacy Rule, regulators must consider aligning those changes with other ...

Almost half the US states have passed comprehensive consumer data privacy protections that go beyond federal health privacy rules, known as Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

As more and more people have gotten vaccinated across the U.S. against COVID-19, mask-wearing and social-distancing guidelines have grown more relaxed. In mid-May 2021, the Centers for Disease Control ...

In a letter to the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, the American Hospital Association said the U.S. Health and Human Services Office of Civil Rights rule regarding the use of ...

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Netflix’s new documentary Maternal Instinct has many viewers questioning whether the lines may be drawn too tightly when it ...